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Three cruise missiles hit Ukraine's southern port city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, while air defences shot down another two missiles near the southern city of Odesa, the Ukrainian armed forces said in a statement. It said one civilian was wounded in the strikes on Mykolaiv. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris Trent reports from Odesa, Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, while the number of casualties is "unimaginable".
Heavy Russian bombardment of Ukraine's battleground eastern Lugansk region and key city Severodonetsk has been "hell" for soldiers there, Kyiv said Wednesday, while insisting that defenders would hold on "as long as necessary". FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.
Images of shelling over Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, taken from Lysychans’k. A French journalist was killed today during a Russian bombardment that struck a vehicle evacuating citizens near Severodonetsk, which has been pounded by advancing Russian troops in recent weeks. IMAGES
At least 200 people have been killed in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin since Russia invaded Ukraine, its mayor said Wednesday, adding that half the town had been destroyed and it was unsafe for residents to return. Ukraine said the commuter town was "liberated" from Russian forces on Monday. FRANCE 24's Cyril Payen tells us more.
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